Will Sanjay Dutt Go To Jail? SC To Decide Today

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear today Sanjay Dutt's plea, seeking review of the judgment upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear today actor Sanjay Dutt's plea, seeking review of the judgment upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

A bench of P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan, which had delivered the March 21 verdict, will take up the review plea in chamber. It will also consider similar pleas made by other six convicts in the case.

Other six convicts who filed the review petitions are Yusuf Mohsin Nulwalla, Khalil Ahmed Sayed Ali Nazir, Mohamed Dawood Yusuf Khan, Shaikh Asif Yusuf, Muzammil Umar Kadri and Mohd Ahmed Shaikh. A day before the deadline for his surrenderended, the Supreme Court had on April 17 granted Dutt, 53, four weeks time to surrender before jail authorities to undergo 42 months remaining sentence in the case.

The apex court had on March 21 upheld his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case which it said was organised by Dawood Ibrahim and others with the involvement of Pakistan's ISI. However, the apex court had reduced to five years the six-year jail term awarded to Dutt by a designated TADA court in 2006, ruling out his release on probation saying the nature of his offence was "serious".

Dutt was convicted by the TADA court for illegal possession a 9 mm pistol and a AK-56 rifle which were part of the consignment of weapons and explosives smuggled into India for the serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured over 700.